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Saturday, October 5, 2013

UM Held hostage - 781 days. Can we replace the Federal shutdown with an NCAA shutdown

781 days and counting!

Feel free
to correct me, but I calculate that it has been 781 days from August 16,
2011, the date I have that the Charles Robinson Article was published on Yahoo
Sports until today, Saturday, October 5, 2013.Yes, I mean it, UM Held Hostage.2 years, 1 month, 19 days. This is a long
time to be punished by a holding a big black cloud over one’s head, especially where UM has applied
probably the harshest self-imposed penalties while we all wait for a NCAA to
complete its so-called investigation and impose its ruling.

By the
way, the NCAA has investigated and absolved itself for its own wrong doing,
using an “outside” counsel. What happened since then?

More
dates: UM did not receive the NCAA's Notice of Allegations from the NCAA until
February 19, 2013.The hearing was held
beginning June 13, 2013.What’s that
been?115 days or 3 months, 23 day. What
are the tribunal members doing?To each
of them I ask: What do you call an order that is released from a tribunal more
than 115 days after hearings? Answer: “Stale”I can think of many courts and administrative agencies that would
reverse an order delayed so long and possible rebuke the Judge for the delay in
timely rendering.

How can
student athletes properly concentrate on school and athletics while they wait
for a decision that decides how much they pay for the sins of others long since
departed?

Wish of
the week: An end to the Federal shutdown to be replaced by an NCAA
shutdown.

NCAA Member schools need to start
acting like participating members a/k/a directors over the NCAA, rather than
subjects to a monarch and demand better from the NCAA. Any one of them could be
next.